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Historian and philologist Brendan Cook joins Scott Ferguson for the second installment of their 3-part mini-series devoted to Plato\u2019s Republic. (See Part 1, if you are new to the series.) In Part 2, Brendan and Scott turn their attention to the education of the guardian class that occupies Republic\u2019s middle books in an effort to examine how the text\u2019s zero-sum or \u201cunivocal\u201d metaphysics of mediation variously undermine its commitments to abundant provisioning. Along the way, our co-hosts investigate Republic's elitist critique of democracy, contradictory endorsement of the so-called \u201cnoble lie,\u201d and much-discussed analogies of the sun, divided line and cave.

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